On June 20th, Kareem Elnahal gave his valedictory speech at Mainland Regional High School in Limwood, N.J., quite different from the speech school administrators were expecting. He does not look fondly upon his education, challenging what education has come to mean. “I speak today not to rant, complain or cause trouble, and certainly not to

A Department of Homeland Security test program to have U.S. employers verify all new hires against a central database to verify employment eligibility and immigration status will help cut down on illegal immigration, said Robert Divine, acting deputy director of Citizenship and Immigration Services. The Basic Pilot program, which began in 1997 and has been

The Department of Homeland Security can barely protect its own computer systems from outside attack. Yet a group of business leaders wants to turn over their responsibility for coordinating with each other after a catastrophic disaster affecting the Internet to the department. A new Business Roundtable report (PDF) says that “the United States is not

The No Child Left Behind Act, signed into law by President Bush January 8, 2002 includes as one of its measures the standard to staff our public schools with “highly qualified teachers” by June 2007. The main difficulty with this is that school districts are suffering chronic teacher shortages across the nation. According to the

Democrats announced plans Monday to block a proposed Congressional pay raise unless the federal minimum wage sees its first increase in nearly a decade. The Democrats, frequently accused by Republicans of lacking initiative, seek to establish a coherent policy platform in the run-up to the 2006 Congressional elections as well as show that they have

The American Medical Association has been proposing one protectionist or statist piece of legislation after the next, and while their motives are just as impure as ever when it comes to challenging the growth of retail-store healthcare services, as Dr. Thomas Davis points out, these retail-chain clinics aren’t the free market supporter’s wet dream that

A secret U.S. government program instituted shortly after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks searched large databases of international bank transactions for terrorist activity. Publication of the program has drawn criticism from conservatives, while the program itself, believed to be secret, wasn’t actually very secret after all. The program, run by the Central Intelligence Agency

They seized her property via eminent domain. She fought it all the way to the Supreme Court and lost. Still, Susette Kelo would not move. A year after the controversial and widely unpopular decision, which gave cities new power to seize property for private redevelopment, the city of New London, Conn., is finally getting Susette

Spreadsheets containing the names, birthdates and Social Security numbers of 28,000 U.S. Navy personnel and family members were found on a civilian Web site, the Office of Naval Personnel said Friday. Are you sensing a pattern yet? The Joint Task Force Global Network Operations, a component of U.S. Strategic Command, found the files and reported

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Thursday that thieves stole two laptops from a locked vehicle containing personal data on about 110 people, many of whom were current and former defendants in FTC investigations. Yes, that’s right, yet another one. While the computers were password protected, the files on the computers were not encrypted, the